January 15, 2022
Now this feels a bit like open heart surgery: I want to mount the plane at take off and with one wheel only touching the ground. So I drilled a hole into the tyres to achieve that. If I would have used my brain, it would have been crystal clear, that the flimsy axle would never been able to support the weight of the whole plane. What to do? Ok. I use the strut, drill it out and insert a metal piece for stability. Said, done, failed. Drilling off alignment ruined the strut. I managed to force the mangled gear strut out of the wing after clipping off the supports. Then I replaced it with a piece of syringe. Now I have to rebuild the landing gear again and paint it. Stay with me, as I will need all the support I can get for this.